[Elecraft] High End Operators?

Augie "Gus" Hansen augie.hansen at comcast.net
Mon Sep 5 17:09:29 EDT 2016


Hi Jim,

Your time on the 11m ham band had to be before September 1958, which is 
when the Class D CB allocation was authorized. Prior to that time CB was 
a UHF-only affair.

73,
Gus Hansen
KB0YH


On 9/5/2016 2:51 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On Mon,9/5/2016 1:36 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
>> "High End Operators" is an obsolete citizens band radio (CB) pejorative
>> term I have not heard in a very long time, almost forty years.
>
> That's a term I've never heard. Although I've been licensed since 
> 1955, the only time I ever transmitted on 11M was around 1959-60 when 
> it was still a ham band, and a fellow student at U of Cincy had built 
> a pair of 11M handhelds (in tall skinny Al boxes, sort of like a "Bud 
> box").
>
> 73, Jim K9YC



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